By Bernardo Filipe / December 14, 2025
Every smart and educated person knows communism sucks for everyone other than the communist leaders, and that common people defending and glorifying communism are stupid. Communists hate capitalists because they supposedly “exploit” workers, but the truth is that were it not for the job-creating capitalists, communist sympathizers would be far worse. Just take a good look at North Korea and see for yourself. Or open a history book, for that matter. The fierce competition of capitalistic societies and the rising inequality this competition gives rise to, however, might come full circle, and end right back in communism. Or what do you think the useless masses will contribute to society when AI, robots, and automation are in full swing? 99.99% of people will become truly economically obsolete in the long run. We are already seeing this happening in real-time. In the short term, physical jobs might survive, but not for long. All you need to do to realize this is to go to Youtube and check the state of robotics and see how some of these robots are literal gymnasts. You think they won’t be able to do your plumbing, or be your electrician, or carry some bricks and do your construction work? For a far cheaper price than you? The capitalistic quest for profit is creating machines that will render all of you obsolete, whether your job is intellectual (powerful LLMs are already replacing workers as I type this) or physical. So the communist “utopia” is coming, and you are all going to become “equal” in the end—even if that means you’ll all be equally useless. But work won’t be a problem when AI, robots, and automation dominate and control our societies’ production. Since you won’t be capable of contributing anything, anyway, some form of pension will likely be distributed among the population. Musk says this technological revolution will bring inordinate amounts of wealth to societies and there will be no lack of services and products for everyone. Whether you need medical treatment, entertainment, or healthy food, the machines will give it all to you for free, and of much higher quality than what we can currently provide. This is the optimistic scenario. In the pessimistic scenario, the elites/state/government will see no point in keeping the masses alive and will genocide them, leaving perhaps a few of them in some sort of zoo or protected area, kind of like we currently do with the Amish or the American Indian communities. After all, those precious resources would probably be better allocated to military purposes, since any opposing elites/state/government using the same kind of AI and robots could turn malignant and go on the offensive. So the inequality chasm between the elites and the masses will become bigger with the coming technological progress, as the elites use AI, robotics, and automation to cybernetically enhance themselves. The advances in the biological fields will further contribute to increasing this inequality and will render the masses even more useless, as designer babies, cloning, artificial wombs, and genetic engineering come to the fore and turn the governing elites into genuine superhumans, with super strength and super cognitive powers. If Baudrillard was already writing that “the mass is dumb like beasts”, imagine what the coming cyborgs and AI will think of the masses.
So the endgame of capitalism is communism. All that’s left to discover is whether the masses will cease to exist or not. In the optimistic case, they will and life will be amazing for them. In the pessimistic case, they won’t, and the ruling classes will engage in perpetual war against each other. Either way, whether the masses survive on the handouts of the ruling class, becoming equally dependent and equally powerless, from the perspective of the ruling class, of course, or whether they go extinct, your communist dream will become reality, not through revolution, but through your very own obsolescence. Congratulations, comrades! Your equality is coming!
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